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Band Saw 0.3.0 Released (09 March 2006)
The final release of Band Saw 0.3.0 is now available. This is the
first release that replaces the popup alert dialogs with a nifty
icon in the notification tray. If you downloaded the development
release you should still upgrade as I've fixed some UI bugs and
updated the user manual.

0.3.0-dev Development Release (08 March 2006)
It took 18 months to get from 0.1.1 to 0.2.0, and now less than 18
hours later there's another package. Mmmm, why's that then?

There are two problems with 0.2.0. Firstly, I just noticed that it
has a tendency to ignore some log messages if you get several
messages arriving at once. 0.1.1 had the same problem, but it's
now fixed in 0.3.0-dev.

Secondly, 0.2.0 hassles you by popping up dialogs all the
time. Wouldn't it be nice if it caught your eye but let you carry
on with what you were doing? Possibly with an icon in your
notification tray?

You can get it here: bandsaw-0.3.0-dev.tar.gz. You
may find that you need to install GnomePythonExtras to get support for
the tray icon. Hopefully it won't be too long before I've updated
the user manual and rolled out a proper version of 0.3.0...

Band Saw 0.2.0 Released (07 March 2006)
This release adds the ability to filter the messages displayed in
the message view. For example, you can restrict the view so that
you only see the messages that were created by a given host,
during a certain hour or minute, or that contain a specific key
word.

Band Saw 0.1.1 Released (02 August 2004)
This is a minor release to fix the installation instructions in
the README file. It suggested that you run make check
during installation, but it's not necessary and will fail unless
you have pMock
installed.

There's no need to upgrade if you have installed 0.1.0. Packages
available from the download page.

Band Saw 0.1.0 Released (31 July 2004)
The first version of Band Saw is now ready for public
consumption. Head over to the download
page to try it out.

Autoconf/automake support (16 July 2004)
I've been working on autoconf/automake support to make
installation a breeze. If you'd like to give it a try checkout the
code from CVS and then run:

./autogen.sh; make install

Feedback would be much appreciated. I'm going to hold off
releasing version 0.1 until I've ironed out a couple of minor
known bugs, but it won't be long now.

Development version useful (26 June 2004)
The version in CVS is quite useful. It supports reading
messages from a named pipe and displaying on screen alerts when
serious events occur. You can also throttle the number of alert
dialogs so you're not inundated with error messages.

Version 0.1 will be released once I've hooked up the Preferences
dialog (you currently need to edit the config file by hand) and
written some installation scripts and documentation.

Band Saw development started (22 June 2004)
The CVS repository is up and the code has been imported. Watch this
space...